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Jim Matheson Washington ï¿½ President Barack Obama reportedly pulled aside members of Congress from their summer luau to lobby for passage of an historic energy bill that limits the pollutants
companies can put into the air.

But one Democrat who opposes the so-called cap-and-trade bill, Rep.

Jim Matheson of Utah, escaped unscathed.

"They weren't browbeating me over this vote," Matheson said Friday as the House passed 219-212 without his support, the massive bill that aims at shifting the country away from carbon-emitting energy
sources.

"I really have not received pressure for this floor vote at all." Matheson joined Utah Republican Reps.

Rob Bishop and Jason Chaffetz in voting against the bill.

Matheson, one of 44 Democrats who voted against the measure, says he made his objections known to the White House and fellow Democrats.